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A Prescriptive Letter About The Danger Of Prescriptive Rhetoric

A Prescriptive Letter About The Danger Of Prescriptive Rhetoric

Ian Kime Ian Kime
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My voice should speak in action and teach by example those lessons I have learned through careful listening coupled with a willingness to understand without a vain need to be a prescriptive force.

Whatever Works For You

Whatever Works For You

Daniel Coffeen Daniel Coffeen
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How, alas, does one excavate oneself from such careening thoughts in which truth is temporary, suspect, and often useless?

The 7 Most Common Feminist Insults

The 7 Most Common Feminist Insults

Tuthmosis Sonofra Tuthmosis Sonofra
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“You’re a rapist!!!”

F#%K The Poor?

F#%K The Poor?

Kovie Biakolo Kovie Biakolo
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Most people would be offended by this.

What Is An Argument?

What Is An Argument?

Daniel Coffeen Daniel Coffeen
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Arguments have been given a bad rap. They’re contentious, we say. They’re hostile, oppositional. When we picture an argument, we see faces flush with anger, profanity, bile spewing. But this is all a silly prejudice that dates back millennia.

What Is Beautiful?

What Is Beautiful?

Kovie Biakolo Kovie Biakolo
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Can everyone be beautiful? And if everyone is beautiful, then is anyone really beautiful?

Against Tolerance

Against Tolerance

Daniel Coffeen Daniel Coffeen
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I truly believe that tolerance is dangerous.

Say The Right Thing (Not The True Thing)

Say The Right Thing (Not The True Thing)

Daniel Coffeen Daniel Coffeen
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And so I often find myself in conversations — with co-workers, family, friends, students, lovers — in which I instinctively reach for the word that is true, not for the word that is right.

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